My weekend at the ALA conference at Anaheim was filled with excitement and got to meet lots of librarians. I had the opportunity to attend numerous presentations conducted by librarians (or techies) and decided to provide some highlights of the topics presented.

BIGWIG ’s 2008 Social Software Showcase.

• Citation Bookmarking Tools – Lorena O’English
• Community Building & Experience – David Lee King
• Apps in Facebook & Opensocial, and Why Librarians Should Pay Attention – Rachel Vacek
• LibGuides – Cindi Trainor
• Video 2.0 and the new Media Revolution – Jason Griffey
• Niche Social Networks: The Power of Yarn – Katie Dunneback
• OpenID – Robin Hastings
• VuFind : Social Features – Chris Barr
• WorldCat API, Social Software, and making things easier – David Walker
• WorldCat Local: Social Features – Jennifer L. Ward
• WorldCat Widget for WordPress – Karen A. Coombs

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Sarah’s Top Technology Trends – virtual presentation for ALA 2008

1. Bandwith
2. Sustainability
3. Looking away from the bright shiny things and at ourselves instead
4. Catalogs
5. Open Access Content

See complete details at:

http://librarianinblack.typepad.com/librarianinblack/2008/06/sarahs-top-tech.html

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Tech Trends at ALA

June 19th, 2008 by Eric Lease Morgan

1. “Bling” in your website
2. Data sets
3. Institutional repositories
4. Mobile devices
5. Net Neutrality
6. “Next generation” library catalogs
7. Open Access Publishing
8. Social networking
9. Web Services-based APIs

More at:

http://litablog.org/2008/06/19/top-tech-trends-for-ala-summer-08/